Best Hauling Poems

Written: December 12, 2023
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Twilight swallowed me, striking me speechless 
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On the day after Christmas, they started appearing,
cast out of houses, stripped of their finery,
lying crooked in the gutter, garbage bags flanking.

My brothers and I...

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Bloated; the feeling of you getting filled with the same things of the world 
Old from not finding something new to make you feel young
Daily...

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We danced in the downpour

The rains falls
not hard, more of a drizzle
this late Winter night
leaning on the light post
across the street,
watching the light in your...

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Miles of roads while blowing horns 
tiresome bodies their eyes are sore,
Trying to reach a rest stop to avoid 
a jackknifed load.

Hauling the necessities to...

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(A Christmas Collage) 

The sun has set and night is stealing
Softly o'er the silent land,
While snowflakes slowly down are falling,
Shaken from an unseen hand.

To the...

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I have dreamed so many dreams of life in Texas
Of cowboys and of the history I'd find there
So many hours I have been driving 
but...

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I saw an old wagon wheel in the antique store the other day.
What type of vehicle it must have conveyed, I couldn't really say,
But I...

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Life was so carefree for me as a child, way back when
I was just a little girl who loved to dream and pretend
that I would...

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I drive the night because of open road.
My retreads are sounding strong.
Hauling cars up from New Orleans
Where I'm not sure that I belonged.

Traded whiskey for...

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I am the reminiscence of you, since you were once me –
stirred among the strings of sense.
I am the reminiscence of everything you love,
since the...

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Falling forever through time, lonely hearts cascading…
Calling echoes of ringing chime, vibes of love fading…
Crawling tears facing crime, of dark streets invading…
Exhaling breaths chasing climb,...

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A mackerel sky fillets the village
then hides it in a breezeless blear.
Heads poke out of net drapes
sniff and fish behind trawling curtains.
Shopkeepers brace for
wet dog...

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fifty years
this house stood against
the tide of generations
leaving in its wake
lizards and roaches 

still weaker
we wield hammers
and peer at each other
through glass windows

the masks went...

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The Great Falls of the northern Plains is actually a chain of five seperate waterfalls
varying in height and majesty extending over 12 miles,
they also confirm...

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